The Politics, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, is one of the most influential texts in political philosophy. In it, Aristotle explores the...
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive s...
The book tells the story of Julian West, a young American who, towards the end of the 19th century, falls into a deep, hypnosis-induced sleep and wake...
A collection of memoirs about the Peninsular War, the Battle of Waterloo, and society and personalities of Regency London and 19th century Paris, by a...
Published in 1897, this book describes the advent of Christianity in the United States from the landing of the first explorers with their mission to c...
On 25th century Earth, a comet made mostly of Carbonic-Oxide (CO) could possibly collide with the Earth. It is concerned with the philosophy and polit...
Covers assassinations in history from Philip of Macedon to Alexander I of Serbia, mostly focusing on the motives and intrigues. The author left out th...
This book is about a thoughtful young soldier and writer who leads a civil war against a corrupt American government and institutes a series of reform...
This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities based on its investigation of...
These cases involved questions that came before the Supreme Court that needed answers. The questions in order of appearance in this project are as fol...
On June 8, 1765 James Otis, supported by the Massachusetts Assembly sent a letter to each colony calling for a general meeting of delegates. The meeti...
The Riot Act 1714 was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain which authorised local authorities to declare any group of 12 or more people to be unl...
New citizens of the United States were given this pamphlet when they became citizens. The Citizen's Almanac contains information on the history, peopl...
The plot revolves around the politics inside a major bank. As the novel begins, the position of CEO of one of America's largest banks, First Mercantil...
The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential i...
Abraham Lincoln is America's Frodo Baggins; a very unlikely creature to accomplish extraordinary things. He was a plain, homely, poor, terribly sad ma...
In Books 3 and 4 of Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes elaborates on the political philosophy set forth in the first two books, by considering the nature of a C...
Lincoln's first inaugural address was delivered on March 4th, 1861, as the North and South were sliding towards separation and Civil War. His second i...
In the book, he uses the term "fitness" in applying his ideas of Lamarckian evolution to society, saying for example that "It is clear that any being...
Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought, generally known as Anticipations, was written by H.G....
This story belongs with many other thrillers and mysteries that Alcott published under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard. Of all her stories of femme fatale...
Queen Elizabeth the First of England, the Grand Turk at Constantinople, and an organ builder named Thomas Dallam—quite a trio. In 1599, Elizabeth comm...
